Apple removes ‘crude’ app monitoring US assassination drone strikes
American multinational technology company Apple has removed an app which covers airstrikes the US launches throughout the world by its terror drones.
Apple said the application is “objectionable” and “crude,” Sputnik reported early Wednesday.
The app, formerly called Drone+, sends notifications when strikes are launched and shows their locations on the map.
Apple constantly rejected Drone+, arguing it was “not useful or entertaining enough.”
Last year, the application emerged again under a new name, Metadata+, but app store removed it again after six months due to its “excessively crude or objectionable content.”
The app does not provide any graphic material or release information on the victims but refers users to media reports over the matter.
This is while apps, in which you can control drones to kill specified targets, have always been available.
The application still works on iOS devices but cannot be downloaded by new users.
Josh Begley, an artist and editor at the Intercept who developed the app’s concept, said he would continue updating people over the matter via Twitter.
“I still plan to update the Twitter account as new drone strikes get reported—and Metadata+ should continue to work for everyone who has it downloaded on their phone. But new users won’t be able to install it,” Begley told Gawker in an email.
Washington has used its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to carry out attacks against targets in Afghanistan and a number of other Muslim countries including Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. Reports suggest a great percentage of the victims are civilians.
The US has been identified as the world’s number one user of “targeted killings” by the United Nations and human rights groups.
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